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ἄδυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄδυτος ἄδυτος ἄδυτον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + δυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: du/w

Sense

  1. Not to be entered

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ταῦτα γὰρ ἀμέλει ἐν τοῖσ ἀδύτοισ ἀπόκειται γραφέντα πλεῖον ἢ πρὸ ἐτῶν μυρίων. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 14:4)
  • ὅσαι δ’ Ἐρινύων οὐκ ἐπείσθησαν νόμῳ, δρόμοισ ἀνιδρύτοισιν ἠλάστρουν μ’ ἀεί, ἑώσ ἐσ ἁγνὸν ἦλθον αὖ Φοίβου πέδον, καὶ πρόσθεν ἀδύτων ἐκταθείσ, νῆστισ βορᾶσ, ἐπώμοσ’ αὐτοῦ βίον ἀπορρήξειν θανών, εἰ μή με σώσει Φοῖβοσ, ὅσ μ’ ἀπώλεσεν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 3:5)
  • ἀδύτοισ ἐν ἁγνοῖσ σῶμα λάμπονται πυρί; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode3)
  • ἔτι μιν ἔτι βρέφοσ, ἔτι φίλασ ἐπὶ ματέροσ ἀγκάλαισι θρῴσκων ἔκανεσ, ὦ Φοῖβε, μαντείων δ’ ἐπέβασ ζαθέων, τρίποδί τ’ ἐν χρυσέῳ θάσσεισ, ἐν ἀψευδεῖ θρόνῳ μαντείασ βροτοῖσ θεσφάτων νέμων ἀδύτων ὕπο, Κασταλίασ ῥεέθρων γείτων, μέσον γᾶσ ἔχων μέλαθρον. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, strophe 14)
  • "κατὰ δὲ τὸν ἀνάπλουν ἔτυχεν ἡμῖν συμπλέων Μεμφίτησ ἀνὴρ τῶν ἱερῶν γραμματέων,^ θαυμάσιοσ τὴν σοφίαν καὶ τὴν παιδείαν πᾶσαν εἰδὼσ τὴν Αἰγύπτιον ἐλέγετο δὲ τρία καὶ εἴκοσιν ἔτη ἐν τοῖσ ἀδύτοισ ὑπόγειοσ ᾠκηκέναι μαγεύειν παιδευόμενοσ ὑπὸ τῆσ Ἴσιδοσ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 26:13)
  • τοῖσ δ’ ἄλλοισ ἄδυτόσ ἐστιν ὁ τόποσ καὶ ὀλέθριοσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 80:6)

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